How fascinating! The European Union's top foreign policy man, Javier Solana, is in the Middle East at a time when everyone in the region (and the world) is looking back on the legacy of the first Israeli leader who ever signed an agreement with the PLO. Not only that, but the former U.S. President who oversaw the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, which was to run for seven years culminating in the birth of a Palestinian state in 2000, will be in the Middle East as well.

It was Clinton who would say, after a 2000 meeting at Camp David with Yasser Arafat and then Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak failed to bring about the peace which Oslo had promised might come in that same year, "I regret that in 2000 [Arafat] missed the opportunity to bring that nation into being and pray for the day when the dreams of the Palestinian people for a state and a better life will be realized in a just and lasting peace."

The many missed opportunities for peace are the sideline issue that dramatizes, in my opinion, how the prophesied Antichrist is going to become the darling of the international news media when he succeeds in accomplishing what others the liberal media have adored failed, often miserably, in achieving, William "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" Clinton chief among them.

And, as for Clinton being in the Middle East at a time when the EU's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, is making his rounds, I can't help but think that plays to any goal the EU is presently trying to forward. Why? Because Bill Clinton just loves ole' Javier Solana, a Moscow-endorsed Marxist , as seen in a 1995 online foreign policy alert which warned that Clinton was supporting him to lead NATO, which Solana later did before leaving NATO to hold the office he presently does.

As seen in the online foreign policy alert linked above, "an influential Madrid newspaper editorialized, "If anyone in 1982 would have said that the young, anti-militaristic, anti-NATO Socialist leader who advocated 'active neutrality' would someday be general secretary of the Atlantic Alliance, he would have been locked up as a lunatic.""

And yet America's president, Bill Clinton, supported Solana, in spite of the fact Solana's appointment to such a role couldn't have been viewed to be in America's best interest by anyone, other than a liberal --- or the Russians.

At any rate, as I write this, Solana and his old buddy Clinton are over in the Middle East together where I suspect Solana and any EU contingency traveling with him will be able to count on Bill Clinton doing whatever he subtly can to undermine the Republican Bush administration as the Clintons look forward to 2008 --- and Hillary sitting in Bill's old office soon thereafter. What I believe, should the EU be working on anything related to an EU-backed peace covenant in the Middle East, is Bill Clinton can be counted on to further any EU-presented ideas for peace in his private conversations with present Israeli leaders, especially if he believes the end result of such a plan would see the EU being credited with a workable peace plan coming to the Middle East, whereafter the liberal media could suggest Bush's "failed policies brought only war and increased terrorism to the region" or something like that. Why? Because an embarrassment to current US foreign policy would raise Hillary's political stock, of course. Can't you just hear the spin the liberal media would create now?

Picture this being said on your favorite liberal newscast, "Democrats, although exuberant that peace may be coming to the troubled Middle East, regret that the Bush administration's aggressive foreign policy based on faulty and misleading intelligence left America in a weakened diplomatic position, allowing the EU to achieve what a Democrat-led White House may have achieved long ago had Al Gore not been robbed of his election victory in 2000." Darn those hanging chads! (And you thought no one would ever talk about those again. Sorry, but I succumbed to my sense of humor a moment.)

Getting back to Gershon Baskin's Daily Star commentary, there is one paragraph I don't want my site's readers to miss as it is one of potential significance to those of us interested in the fulfillment of Bible prophecy. It reads as follows, with explanation to follow:

As I have demonstrated on at least two occasions now, Abbas and the Palestinians are wanting to open SECRET permanent-status negotiations in relation to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Israelis, as I have documented each time, aren't appearing interested in participating in anything secret, but I believe we should assume, especially at this time when there are so many indicators pointing toward the soon-coming return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Israelis may elect to change their mind.

If the Israelis have a change of mind, it's conceivable that no one will hear so much as a squeaking hinge when the gates to peace in the Middle East begin to swing open as a result of a third-party's role in bringing peace to the troubled region, at least where the Church is concerned.

In the Bible we're told that Jesus is going to come at an hour when we think not, as opposed to when we'll be expecting it, as seen in Luke 12:40 and Matthew 24:44. While Christ's remarks may well be indicative of an apostate Church having little interest in monitoring developments of prophetic interest taking place in the Middle East, we should also explore the possibility that Christ's words indicate the peace plan the prophesied Antichrist will confirm in fulfillment of Daniel 9:26-27 will be announced without any prior public notice that it's coming whatsoever!

Having established that the Palestinians want SECRET negotiations for peace to take place and noting that the European Union, the revived Roman empire of Bible prophecy, is swiftly becoming a third wheel in the Middle East, is it far-fetched for us to think the advent of the Antichrist could be drawing near? No! If you think so, it's time to look away from the many distractions around you, strengthen the antenna of your spiritual radar, and start actively WATCHING for the return of Jesus Christ! While none of us know the identity of the Antichrist to come or even if he is presently involved in seeking peace in the Middle East at all, there has never been more going on that indicates we may be nearing his advent and the Rapture of the Church than right now that I am personally aware of.

We're told that the return of Jesus Christ for His Church is going to come as a thief in the night, not in the broad daylight of our awareness. Thus, the need to stay focused, remain suspicious of what's diplomatically going on in the world around us (without getting wrapped up in trying to identify the Antichrist among the numerous end times diplomatic players), and call everyone we possibly can to repentance of their sins and faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior that they may avoid having to endure the horrors of the Tribulation Period to come, a seven-year period which will begin when the restraining influence of the Holy Spirit which manifests itself through the Body of Christ, His Church, is dampened when the light of the world and the salt of the earth is removed at the Rapture of the Church, giving the world over to darkness and unprecedented moralistic and spiritual decay!

Before the Antichrist's rise, the born-again Christian flies - and it could take place at any moment! Never forget that.

KEEP LOOKING UP!